Question 1 of :

Max from "Where the Wild Things Are"
Jonathan Safran Foer from "Everything Is Illuminated"
Ruth Puttermesser from "The Puttermesser Papers"
Augie March from "The Adventures of Augie Marsh"
Jacob from "All Other Nights"

Qustion 2. Which of these books is NOT about the Jewish immigrant experience?

Call it Sleep
The Rise of David Levinsky
The Ritual Bath
The Promised Land

Qustion 3. When did Ladino writers start to use the Ladino language to keep their disparate culture alive?

The 1880s
1492
1945
1992

Qustion 4. Up until the 1800s, which of these languages was not a widespread language used for writing Jewish fiction?

Russian
German
Yiddish
Polish

Qustion 5. Which writer survived the Holocaust, only to commit suicide years later?

Franz Kafka
Max Brod
I.L. Peretz
Paul Celan
None of the above.

Qustion 6. Which of these is NOT a contemporary Israeli author?

Aharon Appelfeld
S.Y. Agnon
Amoz Oz
A.B. Yehoshua

Qustion 7. Which of these writers is known as the "grandfather of Yiddish literature"?

Qustion 9. Who is the celebrated classical Yiddish writer known for short stories that inspired Fiddler on the Roof?

Qustion 10. Who was Rivkah Tiktiner?

A Holocaust survivor who wrote poems about her wartime experiences
A 16th-century Jewish educator, scholar, and author
An Israeli novelist
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